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My arfid is primarily sensory, and it stems from my autism. My pallet is extremely limited- at my worst all I can stomach is bread and one specific brand of cheese.
Non-white ppl of Reddit- what do your parents think about ARFID? St4r_5lut 2025
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My daughter hates food. I think she has arfid but I've been ignored by countless doctors so fuck me, I guess.
My daughters eating disorder is killing me financially. Icy-Gate-213 2025
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Before Harry Smith, now 12, received professional help for his avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (Arfid), he would eat only baby food.
The rise of Arfid: the truth about the eating disorder that made a teenager go blind Sirin Kale 2019
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Does he only like certain foods (might he have avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (Arfid?).
My husband unfairly blames me for our son’s eating disorder | Ask Annalisa Barbieri Annalisa Barbieri 2024
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Does he only like certain foods (might he have avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (Arfid?).
My husband unfairly blames me for our son’s eating disorder | Ask Annalisa Barbieri Annalisa Barbieri 2024
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My son and I also have ARFID. He would not eat any meat besides chicken nuggets for years.
My daughters eating disorder is killing me financially. Icy-Gate-213 2025
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Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) was introduced to the psychiatric nomenclature four years ago1 as a reformulation of Feeding Disorder of Infancy and Early Childhood.
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ARFID is a fairly new addition to the modern parenting lexicon: A behavior far more severe than pickiness, it’s an eating disorder provoked not by the desire to change one’s body but by the fear of food itself.
What If a Child Was Terrified of Food? Caitlin Moscatello 2025
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